The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.